New York, NY
Omar Ahmed, most recently known as the star of
TaKeOn NYC’s 8-Man Super Lightweight Professional Muay
Thai Tournament, has been training Muay Thai
with Sitan Gym, New York, for nine years, and at the young
age of twenty-two, has accumulated an amateur record
of 23-1-1 and a professional record of 4-2. He shows
no signs of stopping now—his next fight is also on a TaKeOn card on December 11th, and with a goal of
becoming a K-1 champion remembered as the “best to
ever put on boxing gloves in the sport of Muay Thai.”
Omar’s talent is undoubted, but he is fortunate in his
youth in that he may have a long way to go to catch up
to the likes of Raymon Dekkers and Rob Kaman. However,
with this young man’s talent, he will certainly make
his way up the ranks.
Martial
arts is a family business for Omar. His brother got
him into training, and Aziz Nabih, Omar’s coach, is
his brother-in-law. Omar is the best r
epresentative
fighter of Sitan, New York—its VIP, so to speak. This
isn’t surprising, as Omar is a 2-time WKA US champion,
a 2
-time WKA North American champion, an IKF North
American champion, and an IKF World champion. To earn
these wins, Omar takes the basics of Muay Thai and “I
advance it in my own ways and add my personality and
swagger to it.” This is a man who just loves to fight.
For a living, in addition to being a professional
fighter, he trains others in Muay Thai, boxing,
striking for MMA, and general fitness. He teaches
private lessons, and though close to the Sitan family,
he one day aspires to own his own gym.
